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    who‚ just like many Americans will murder to achieve their expansion. As these Americans continued to move westward‚ our fellow Shawnees‚ Kaskaskias‚ Peorias‚ and others had to cede land to the white settlers so they can settle in their new land of Kansas. A place we used for living‚ now used for civil disputes and fanatic killing by the Americans. The white settlers have been chasing their destiny by

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    In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz‚ directed by Victor Fleming‚ Dorothy Gale is in a monochromatic world with her dog Toto‚ which is represented by the sepia tone of the film from the scenes in Kansas. This‚ to her‚ is a monotonous life that she wishes to break away from. When her wishes come true‚ she is whisked way to the vibrant and colorful world of Oz. She eventually is captured by the Wicked Witch of the West and is back in a dull‚ monochromatic castle with minimal vibrant fantasy colors

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    compromise and prevent war were the Compromise of 1850‚ The Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and The Corwin Amendment. The Compromise of 1850 was unsuccessful in preventing the Civil War because it was made up of 5 bills that tried to resolve the dispute over slavery for the new territories. California was admitted to be a free state while the United States left Utah and New Mexico to decide if they wanted to be a free state or slave state. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was unsuccessful in preventing war because it

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    Have you ever been walking down the street and all of sudden get a whiff of the cigarette smoke coming from the nearby smoker? Many people have complained that cigarette smoke should be banned in public places due to extreme health risks. Health experts‚ politicians‚ business people and the general public have debated a smoking ban on cigarettes for many years. However the issue of smoking bans is complex and there are several things that must be considered. In addition to the health advantages there

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    secession of the southern states. These factors affected the people of America tremendously due to slavery and racial segregation. Three significant factors that led the eleven southern states to secede from the Union were abolitionists (Doc. 5)‚ Kansa-Nebraska Act‚ and the election of 1860 (Doc. 1). During the period of slave existence‚ abolitionists began to rebel against the situation (Doc. 5). Abolitionists were people who were against slavery and would take action by doing something in their

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    The question of whether the Civil War was an ’irrepressible’ or a ’repressible’ conflict has been a central issue of debate. Causes of the war have been variously identified as: 1) conflict over slavery 2) states rights and nationalism 3) differences between an industrial North and an agricultural South 4) the mistakes of blundering politicians and extremists (the ’repressible conflict’ argument) 5) a combination of several different factors‚ with chance and circumstance playing their part.

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    were all around family all day we had no reason to leave. I do thank my family for making that choice to get out of liberal. Sometimes I wonder why most of my family still lives there. There’s so much to see and experience and there stuck. In Liberal Kansas. It’s safe to say my opinion of Liberal has changed a lot. When I come to visit Liberal now it does feel different. Everyone is older now. I’m a lot older now. For me‚ being around so much family as a kid made me go the opposite way growing up. I

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    Oklahoma is signifigant to our states history. They had a happy life in Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan‚ until they got pushed out. Southwest Wisconsin was there new home for a little while. Oklahoma was then their last stop‚ along with Texas and Kansas. The nickname for the Kickapoo “Kiwigapawa” refers to them moving from place to place‚ because the word itself means “he moves from here to there”. Tribes across Oklahoma have had these same struggles of moving from many places because they were either

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    Martha Vasquez November 23‚ 2013 E Block Identification of Terms- Unit 3 1 (4) Shakers Who: A group of religious people who derived their name from a unique ritual in which they would “shake” themselves free of sin. They were most well known for their celibacy‚ which meant that most Shakers entered the religion on their own. Also‚ they embraced the idea of sexual equality and believed God was not clearly male or female. When: Founded in the 1770s Significance or Impact: The Shakers made a redefinition

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    Chapter 19 vocabulary 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - anti-slavery book which alarmed previously unconcerned Northerners and the rest of the world about slavery. 3. Hinton helper - book entitled ’Impending Crisis of the South’ that stirred trouble. Attempted to prove that indirectly the non-slaveholding

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